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    Posted: 11 Jul 2010 at 9:16pm
Hello All
my computer is booting up slow,  when I surf the net its slow. I read that doing routine maintenance on your computer  eliminate this problem.
 
So with that beeing said. Doing maintenance like disk defrag ,  disk cleanup and cleaning the registry.  please correct me if im wrong.
 
Also I play WoW and if i clean the registry would it delete this game? Is there something i need to know before i do these maintenance?
 
I'm not tech smart with computers. I just turn it on and play.
Any help would greatly appriciated
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it wont delete wow
do the following:
 
start - programs - accessories - system tools - disk cleanup
chek all the boxes and run it, it may take a while
 
then download ccleaner http://www.piriform.com/download
install that and run the cleaner with EVERYTHING except the very last box on the left, wipe free space checked on, click run cleaner
 
then go to the registy option on the left of ccleaner, click "fix selected issues" with everything checked, delete all, you can back things up if you want, but you dont need to
 
then go back to the cleaner option on the left, run cleaner again
 
then go back to the registry option on the left, scan and fix over and over until nothing shows up when you scan
 
restart your computer
 
run that, it may take a little while
 
restart your computer
 
after this is done, go back to start - programs - accessories - system tools - disk defragment, run it and go to bed, it will take a while
 
restart your computer
 
try using it again, see how it feels


Edited by !ender_ - 11 Jul 2010 at 11:46pm
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Don't forget to restart it after all this is done before you really do anything yet. Might wanna give it a few goes restarting actually. The first few boots after this I've noticed are laggy, but I'm thinking Windows is just reassociating itself with everything, because boots later on are way way faster.
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good point, edited the post
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Thxs guys for the help.
!ender, you said to download spybot. I have spydoctor. should I use spybot or keep what i have?
 
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i just gave you the programs that i use and trust, spydoctor has some mixed reviews from what i just looked up, so i cant really advise a change either way
 
maybe try doing all the same things but subbing in spydoctor for the bot, if you dont feel faster, then try spybot
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cool. Im gonna give bot a go

thxs again !ender
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let us know the results you get Cool
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lol, also a better hard drive. when mine was 7 days from the date if finally failed it took 3 min ot boot up windows vista, now it takes like 20 sec, and i upgraded to winblows 7 so. that helped also
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Conventional HDDs are rapidly spinning magnetic platters, the farther away from the center you move the faster they are spinning with the outer edges being the fastest. Data density is also higher on the outer edges, so you can read more info per revolution and with less spindle head moment. HDDs start by storing data on the outer edges but as they fill up they have to start storing data on the slower inner sections. Thus the more you fill up a conventional HDD the more their performance dive bombs, not only from the longer access times of the inner platter sections but also fragmentation, a HDD only has one moving spindle head for reading data and the more it has to move itself back and forth from the outer edges to the inner sections of the platter to access data the slower and slower and slower the HDD gets.

So basically just clean as much junk off the HDD as possible and it will improve speeds. Or just get a cheap Intel SSD and never worry about pitiful HDD speeds ever again. Smile
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waiting on that SSD refresh :D
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